Conduit or cable clamp and bridle-ring



J. KARITZKY.

CDNDUIT 0R CABLE CLAMP AND BRIDLE RING.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I4, 1920.

1,381, 199. -Patented June 14, 1921-.

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Q NEY 1. KARITZKY.

COYNDUIT 0R CABLE CLAMP AND BRIDLE RING. APPLICATION FlLED OCT. 14, 1920.

Patented June 14,1921.

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UNETE FFEQYEG JOHN KARITZKY, 0F GARWOOD, N JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY B. N EWHALL,

EXEGUTOB, OF HENRY B. NENI-IALL, Slit, DECEASED.

CONDUIT OR CABLE GLADE? AND BRIDLE-RING.

Specification of Zetters Patent.

Application filed October 14, 1920. Serial N6. 416,980.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN KARITZKY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garwood, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conduit or Cable Clamps and Bridle-Rings, of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the combination of a conduit or cable clamp and a bridle ring, and also to a cable or conduit clamp and a bridle ring as sub-combinations of the main combination, and as articles of manufacture.

My invention further relates to acable or conduitclamp, which can be manufactured at minimum expense and to which a bridle ring may be secured either at the original installation of the cable and conduit clamp, or at any future time when it may be desirable to support one or more runs of bridle wires.

My invention further relates to a conduit or cable clamp provided with a supporting member which is preferably, though not necessarily, in the form of an integral flange having a plurality of non-alined openings,

and a bridle ring having a U-shaped hook adapted to be threaded through said openings in said supporting member or flange and bear both upon the upper and lower surfaces of said flange.

My invention further relates to such a con duit or cable clamp in which the supporting member or flange is provided with a slot open on the side and with a non-alined hole. This permits a littl quicker and easier attachment of the bridle ring to the clamp than when the supporting member or flange has two non-aimed holes with'no slot.

My invention further relates to a conduit or cable clamp which is preferably formed out of pressed sheet material as pressed steel, or which may be formed from castings of malleable iron, brass, an alloy, aluminum or any other metal.

My invention further relates to certain combinations, sub-combinations, articles of manufacture, and details of construction, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed outin the claims.

' In the figures, in whichI have shown different embodiments of my invention, the

Figure l is a perspective view of my con- Patented June ia, ieei.

duit or cable clamp andof a cable which it supports; 7

hi or cable clamp shownin dition of the bridle ring; 0 Fig. 3 is a perspective View of another orm of my invention in which the supporting member ,or flange is provided with two holes rather than with a slot and a hole as shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 is a perspective View, similar to Fig. 3, showing the first position of threading my bridle ring through the non-alined holes in the supporting member or flange;

F 1g. 5 is a perspective View, similar to Fig. 4, showing the second. position of threading the bridle ring through the nonalined holes;

Fg. 6 is a perspective view,similar to Figs. f and 5, showing the third position of threading the bridle ring through the non-alined holes;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view similar to Figs. 4, 5 and (S, and showing in dotted lines, the fourth position of threading the bridle ring, and in full lines'the fifth and lastposition. I v I Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the preferred form of bridle ring.

In the commercial use of conduit or cable clamps it is notgenerally possible, at the date of the original installation, to determine whether or not bridle rings will be needed to support additional loose strands of bridle avires. In commercial practice, a cable is supported on a wall or other suitable support and it may be weeks, months, or

Fig. l with the adj years later that the telephone engineers will determine that it is desirable to support bridle wires parallel to the cable.

By my invention my original conduit or cable clamp may be used as a separate article of manufacture or subcombination, and then later, when the needs of the service demand it, my bridle ring may be supported by the same conduit or cable clamp, when the complete combination would be used.

In my invention 1 form my conduit or cabl clamp l with a hook portion 2 to engage and support the conduit or cable 3 on the wall or other suitable support 4 by g. 2 is a perspective view of the conduit means of the securing screw 5, which passes through the base 6 of the clamp. I provide my conduit or cable clamp with a support ing member having non-alined openings to cooperate with attaching means on the bridle ring which means bear both on the upper and lower surfaces of said supporting member. For cheapness and ease of manufacture,

1 preferably, though not necessarily, form 3 becomes excessive and the telephone or telegraph engineers desire to increase the capacity of the installation, this can be readily done by threading my bridle ring 10 through the slot 8 and hole 9, so that the runs of bridle wires 11, 11 may be supported by the same conduit or cable clamp 1 without loosening the screw 5.

This bridle ring is provided with a shank 12, and a spiral or pigtail 13 for the reception of the bridle wires 11. The other end of the bridle ring is bent down totoi'ni a U-shaped hook 14 which extends beneath the plane 01 the shank 12. The end of the wire forming the hook is brought up and extends a short distance parallel with the shank 12 forming an arm 15.

To position the bridle ring, in this form of my invention, it is merely necessary to thread the shank .12 through the slotS the U-shaped hook llbeing brought a suflioient distance below the supporting member or flange 7, so that the arm 15 of the hookwill be brought under and in line with the hole 9. By then pressing upon the spiral or pigtail portion 13 the shank 12 is caused to slide within theslot 8 and at the same time the arm 15 threaded through the hole 9 until the parts a ssume the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. By then pulling down sharply .upon the pigtail or spiral 18 the entire bridle ring is rocked in the slot 8 and hole 9 so that it will assume the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, the U- shaped member 14 hearing on the lower surface 031' the flange 7 while the arm 15 and a portion of the shank 12 bear upon the upper surface of the flange 7. This gives a very firm and secure fastening between the bridle ring and the clamp, but one which; can be readily disconnected by reversing the operation above described.

In some cases I may employ a supporting member 17 in the form of a flange upon the base 16 of the conduit or cable clamp 22 shown in Figs. 3, 1;. 5, 6 and 7. This clamp is provided with a hook portion 18 to support the conduit or cable 3, and is in all respects similar to the conduit or' cable clampshown in Figs. 1 and 2, except that no slot used in the. flange 17. Tnstead there are two separate and distinct n0nalined holes 19 and 20.

The samebridle ring may he used with this form of my invention as the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

To attach the bridle ring 10 the arm 15 is threaded downward through the hole 19 as shown in Fig. i. The entire bridle ring is then rotated in the hole 19, 180 until the arm 15 lies abovethe plane of the flange 17 and assumes the position shown in Fig. 5. The bridle ring is then swung substantially 90 and lowered slightly by permitting the shank 12 to slide in the hole 19 so that the parts. will assume the position shown in Fig. 6. The bridle ring is then raised bringingthe end or the arm 15 in line with the hole 20 and threading said arm 15 through the hole 20 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. "7. By then pulling down on the pigtail or spiral 13 the parts assume the position shown in full lines in Fig. 7 in'which the member 1a .bears upon the undersurfaceot the flange or supporting member 1"? while a portion of the shank 12 and the arm 15 bears upon the upper portion oi said flange 17. V

The actual operation of attaching the bridle ring to the non-alined holes 19 and 20 is done by simple manipulation and in much quicker time than the operation can be described. 1 r

The bridle ring can be detached from the flange l'i'by simply reversing the operation above described.

Having. thus described this invention in connection with illustrative embodiments thereof, to the details of which I do not desire to be limited, what is claimed as new and what is desired to secure by Letters Patent-is seti'orth in the appended claims.

TV hat I claim is i 1. The combination of a conduit or cable clamp having ahook portion to support a {A *induit or cable and a base to lie against a wall or other suitablesupport, the base being provided with a flange having a plurality of non-alined openings, and a bridle ring having means to be threaded through said non-alined openings and bear on both the upper and lower surfaces of the flange to secure the bridle ring to the clamp.

'2. The combination of a conduit or cable clamp having a hook portion to support a conduit or cable and, a base, to lie against a wall 01: other. suitable support, the base being provided with afiange having a slot open onthe endand a non-alined hole, and a bridle ring having means to be'threaded through said slot and non-alined hole and bear on both the upper and lower surfaces of the flange to secure the bridle ring to the clamp.

3. A new article of manufacture coinprising a bridle ring having a U-shaped hook adapted to be threaded through non-glined openings in a supporting member carried JOHN KARITZKY. lVitnesses F. W. KARITZKYQ BERNARD C. KRANs. 

